Here is Seil’s 54mm US Sniper Vietnam. As with all of Seil’s fine figures, he’s OOP. I may have gotten the last one stateside from Colorado Miniatures a month or so back. I never liked the head, it always looked too squared off. The kit came with a helmet which appears to have been designed to be placed on the base. The kit came with a fret of PE leaves which are in the spares since I wanted more jungle looking flora. The kit also included the tree stump with mushrooms and the rock. The kit base was too large for my base sot it has become a riser for some groundwork in another project. The trousers were my attempt to replicate Tiger Stripe camo. The kit comes with two rifles, one has the arms attached , the other is free standing. The box art shows the extra one with the supplied scope attached. I chose to add the scope to the figure’s rifle by drilling a tiny hole above the bolt and inserting a very short piece of aluminum wire as a support.
I use the method described on hte Vallejo website for highlighting and shoding.
The tree and rock came with the kit. They were primed with Floquil gray primer from a can the painted Vallejo stone gray. A heavy wash of Payne’s gray oil was applied and several layers of lighter gray drybrushing were applied. The block on which this sits had a layer of thick Celluclay added. (I mix mine with white glue, ballast and brown acrylic craft paint and just enough water to get to a thick oatmeal consistency.) The first layer is unlabeled ground cover I bought from Military Miniatures Warehouse at World Expo in 2005. Next are some tufts of Silfor grass, available from the same source. Finally, the leafy plants come from a bag of dried flower stuff I bought at a Michael’s Arts & Crafts. I drilled small holes in the base and superglued thom in place.
The figure was about $30 from Colorado Miniatures, however, Gray said this was his last one and Seil has closed down and has not made its molds available to anyone.
